tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44343423088179907112024-03-05T02:04:29.698-08:00Sweetpea PathSweetpeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000313813136860758noreply@blogger.comBlogger305125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434342308817990711.post-88620125623025630032018-01-27T14:00:00.000-08:002018-01-27T17:46:17.554-08:00Inspire :: By Walid<div style="text-align: center;">
Mr. Walid al Damirji is a clothing designer based in London's Mayfair district.</div>
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He is unusual in that enterprise because his upcycling brand, <i>By Walid</i>, doesn't lean on</div>
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a traditional need for massive press coverage or big, glitzy fashion shows ...</div>
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Walid's preference is to remain a small, artisanal, cottage industry,</div>
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creating the most remarkable (to my eyes, at least) one-of-a-kind garments.</div>
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He may not be able to maintain this more quiet approach for long.</div>
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His garments are quite incredible and since his launch in 2011,</div>
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word has been spreading like ripples across a still pond.</div>
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Every piece, made by hand.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">~ 19th century Ottoman splendor for the new Murat jacket, Autumn/Winter 2018 ~</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"It's a collection of clothing made from repurposed heritage and</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">antique fabrics, some of which date as far back as the 18th century. And if this</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">recycling-upcycling concept is unusual, the way it's applied is even more so.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Every fabric used in By Walid's collection is a mixture of many different</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">repurposed textiles - from 19th-century French damask to embroidered silk kimonos to</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">with an embroidery technique reminiscent of the traditional Japanese art of <i>boro.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Each fabric is then hand-dyed before being turned into the final garments.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">They are then hand-finished, resulting in pieces that, in every detail,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">are one-of-a-kind clothes."</span></div>
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Torn - often shredded - vintage textiles</div>
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The shapes are clean and understated, but oh my, the fabrics can be</div>
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sumptuous and often include lace, crochet and beading ...</div>
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By Walid <a href="https://www.instagram.com/bywalidlondon/" target="_blank">on Instagram</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.mrporter.com/journal/meet-the-makers/by-walid/452" target="_blank">Mr. Porter "Meet the Makers - By Walid" article</a> (quote from above)</div>
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Short little <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhsnehcVaFU" target="_blank">YouTube</a> : Walid on Shape, Texture and Fabrics</div>
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About : Bio from his <a href="http://bywalid.net/about/" target="_blank">website</a></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">please click this tag : <a href="https://sweetpeapath.blogspot.com/search/label/Inspire-album" target="_blank">Inspire-album</a></span></div>
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When an image evokes an immediate question,</div>
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it is doubly powerful when the name of its series evokes yet another.</div>
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<i>The looms in our bones #6</i></div>
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~ featuring Moroccan style embroidery ~</div>
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<i>The looms in our bones #2</i></div>
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~ featuring Manchu tribal motifs ~</div>
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works in progress, courtesy of <i><a href="http://www.we-are-scout.com/2013/08/space-to-create-izziyana-suhaimi.html" target="_blank">We Are Scout</a></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: vollkorn-1, vollkorn-2, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"Embroidery is traditionally seen as a past-time of women, viewed in the domestic sphere and Izziyana is no stranger to it as both her grandmothers and mother are passionate about needlework and crochet. Not content to draw on her personal and family memories, Izziyana conducted extensive research for five years into the embroidery of various cultures and hopes to give this sacred language of women a modern honor."</span></span></span></div>
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<i>'A moonlit night underneath my eyelids'</i></div>
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~ Tsutomu Komine ~</div>
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Born in Tokyo, Japan, 1973.</div>
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In 1997, he graduated from Tama Art University, Dept. of Oil Painting,</div>
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but often works in photography, sculpture, stitch, fiber & encaustic as well.</div>
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His mixed media collages (shown here) often contain</div>
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sea sand, acrylic paper, tako thread, and hemp string, amongst other things.</div>
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Currently, Komine continues producing works</div>
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while operating his cake & tea shop in Hitachi City.</div>
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There are loads of his images on Pinterest,</div>
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but no website and very little information found elsewhere</div>
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a quite active Twitter account)</div>
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<i>and</i> most everything about him/from him is written in Japanese ...</div>
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which unfortunately, I have no knowledge of.</div>
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So in our enjoyment of this work, many of us will have to be content</div>
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with his visual poetry instead.</div>
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Which suits me just fine.</div>
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Many times over the last months I've wondered why I haven't</div>
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been able to bring myself back to this blog. In truth, I've missed it sorely.</div>
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This spot used to be like a favorite room in my house,</div>
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fairly comfy (without the dust) where I gladly resided with a warm cuppa</div>
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(or a wee dram) and a contented dog companion glued to my feet.</div>
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But gradually, I grew uncomfortable with spending</div>
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time here and rather than push the issue for the sake of continuity,</div>
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I simply left the room altogether. Not unlike relationships in life, I suppose,</div>
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where the best move can be to offer distance and reprieve.</div>
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Finally, today, I've sorted the reason 'why' I left, after months of not knowing.</div>
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I simply got sick & tired of talking about myself.<br />
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I do a bit of it still, if I'm honest, over on Instagram, but in much smaller doses<br />
where the emphasis always feels like it's more about the pictures -<br />
for some reason that feels more palatable for now.</div>
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I remember when I first started blogging, how difficult it was to express</div>
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thoughts and emotions to some invisible audience "out there." A most uncomfortable</div>
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position for an introvert to be in, while at the same time a <i>most perfect</i></div>
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outlet for an introvert (if that makes any sense at all).</div>
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Over time - years, in fact - that uncomfortableness waned ... until it didn't anymore</div>
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and I found myself full circle, poised in front of the keyboard</div>
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absolutely tongue-tied.</div>
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So what this all comes down to is that I'd like to reshape a way to be around.</div>
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One of my most valued pastimes is perusing artwork produced by those who strike<br />
some sort of chord ... work wherein I find inspiration and/or solace<br />
and which can often produce a launchpad for new creative ideas.</div>
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Although any genre has the spirit to pull, my particular love & focus is on textiles<br />
and remains an abiding constant. Gosh, truly, there is SO MUCH amazing work </div>
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happening with cloth; from massive installations, to incredible books, to even<br />
the tiniest bits of recycled scrap embedded in collage. Often this work is made<br />
by names I barely recognize or have never heard of altogether.</div>
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I'd like to post some of that work here.</div>
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To no set schedule.</div>
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To no particular timetable.</div>
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I'll call the album, 'Inspire'<br />
and maybe it will do so for some of you, too.<br />
And maybe then we can get back to some jolly good conversations again,<br />
like the ole days.<br />
I've missed that.<br />
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More soon.</div>
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Sometimes it's advantageous to set a project aside when it reaches an impasse.</div>
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I can't remember exactly why I stopped working on this series in the summer of 2013,</div>
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beadwork on naturally dyed cloth</div>
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that hopefully could symbolize thoughts I was having about</div>
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how we humans guard ourselves.</div>
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Not only the different ways we protect ourselves from each other, </div>
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how we wear masks so that our real selves can't be seen or fully known,</div>
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but also how we guard ourselves out in the world.</div>
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Somewhere there's a list - a long list of words I wrote to itemize all the ways we might do this.</div>
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Need to dig that out now</div>
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because I think the time is ripe for carrying on with this.</div>
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Following the thread of a thought brought on</div>
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by this morning's post to Instagram, I made a curious discovery;</div>
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I discovered that since my very first post on IG in 2014</div>
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I've posted a total of 14 images related to <i>the window.</i></div>
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Just what is it about them I find so intriguing?</div>
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A quick hop to googleland took me on a merry journey exploring symbolism.</div>
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There was this article in particular, <a href="http://www.uni-muenster.de/PeaCon/psr/pn/05-krys-windows.pdf" target="_blank">'Windows: Exploring the History of a Metaphor'</a> by</div>
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It's long, but comprehensive, with a thought-provoking list of subtitles to choose from:</div>
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The Evolution of the Window</div>
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The Evolution of the Window Metaphor</div>
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Source of Eternal Light: the Gothic Cathedral</div>
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Renaissance: the Appearance of the Screen</div>
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Light on Privacy: the Windows of Jan Vermeer</div>
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Window Dressing: Staging the Theatrical Stage</div>
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Through the Looking Glass: Virtual Reality in Victorian England</div>
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Space and Time: the Epistemology of Screening and Framing</div>
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The Eye: Mirror and Window of the Soul</div>
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The Window Metaphor in Islamic Culture</div>
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The Window Metaphor in Buddhism and Confucianism</div>
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Walls of Glass: the Essence of Architecture</div>
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Modern Painting: in Defense of the Classical Screen</div>
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āPeep Showā and āFensterlnā: Folklore of the Windows Experience</div>
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Window Shopping: the Commodification of Desire</div>
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The Window Metaphor in Modern Science</div>
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Archaeology of the Computer Screen</div>
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How āWindowsā Chanced To Become A Registered Trade Mark</div>
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So what if I just compile all my windows here, as a group? ... ALL of them</div>
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the real, the imagined, the wished for</div>
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Sweetpeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000313813136860758noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434342308817990711.post-11696033779709764942017-04-23T15:39:00.000-07:002017-04-23T15:39:45.470-07:00Minding my maps<div style="text-align: center;">
Merriam-Webster defines <i>map </i>:</div>
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<i><b>1</b> <b>a</b>: a representation usually on a flat surface of the whole or a part of an area</i></div>
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<i><b>2</b> : something that represents with a clarity suggestive of a map</i></div>
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<i>~ the Freudian 'map' of the mind -- Harold Bloom</i></div>
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so I got to thinking ....</div>
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could photographs act just as easily as maps of a <i>life</i>?</div>
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If I mapped myself, what might that look like?</div>
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So I gave it a try & here's where it led me ...</div>
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Just a small smattering of map pages - old directions & new ...</div>
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Sweetpeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000313813136860758noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434342308817990711.post-73726445823485935602017-02-01T13:47:00.000-08:002017-02-01T13:47:14.470-08:00Considering a world view<div style="text-align: center;">
There are many ways to say a thing.</div>
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For those of us who don't feel particularly eloquent in the political arena and</div>
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perhaps we can look more closely</div>
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this time of which - to some of us - is looked upon</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In retrospect, I probably should have named this playful compendium</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for I don't believe this will ever be anything but a little book</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that lives solely in my mind, produced for a bit of fun <a href="https://www.instagram.com/christicarterphoto/" target="_blank">on Instagram</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I suppose it's been good practice should I decide </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">at some juncture</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to try my hand at the real thing ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm sure I gleaned it from <a href="http://spiritcloth.typepad.com/" target="_blank">jude at Spirit Cloth</a> at some point and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I sincerely hope she is given fair credit & attribution from others</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for all she offers there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a sore subject with me at the moment ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the *borrowing* - no, let me speak plain - the <i>stealing</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and a whole host of wannabes, coat tail riders and ladder climbers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a double-edged sword out here on the web; the need & desire to share work</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">counterbalanced by all those who are watching, researching,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is it really so hard to come up with one's own <i>original</i> words or works?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is it that difficult to ask permission first?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've seen this rampant in the world of photography for years</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and now sadly, I see it running rampant amongst the cloth dyers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[eco-dyers, eco-printers, contact printers, natural dyers, and many stitchers],</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it's incredibly disheartening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I'm feeling the need to take care.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have no intention of getting into arguments with folks over this subject</span></div>
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Sweetpeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000313813136860758noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434342308817990711.post-77666492859343020772017-01-05T19:38:00.000-08:002017-01-05T19:38:29.552-08:00Life is not lived in a straight line<div style="text-align: center;">
"There isn't one right path for you or anyone else.</div>
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You're allowed to figure out what inspires you</div>
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at different stages of your life.</div>
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You're allowed extra time when you need it.</div>
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Life is meant to be a series of zigs and zags.</div>
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It should look like a mess, but a beautiful mess.</div>
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It shows that you have changed and grown.</div>
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You've had your ups and downs.</div>
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You went down one path, but decided to change course ...</div>
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perhaps on many occasions.</div>
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That's how life should be."</div>
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wondering where I'd wandered off to and why.</div>
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A disappearance wasn't planned, but it began and then it felt totally natural</div>
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once I got there,</div>
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which wasn't to be here it seemed, blogging.</div>
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Except now it <i>is.</i></div>
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some semblance of rightness, and again, I felt inclined to keep my concentration there</div>
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I unexpectedly found myself on a new threshold</div>
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This was a dream come true.</div>
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A small space for a textile / beading / photography studio ... at last.</div>
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Room to stretch my wings, dive into multiple projects at a time, close the door</div>
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on big beautiful messes <i>without having to clean up first</i> and then </div>
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I'll keep it short for the moment</div>
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[in truth, I am feeling somewhat rusty at this]</div>
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but I have quite a few tales to catch up on,</div>
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there is no choice but to listen</div>
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I've long held the belief that the majority of modern day ailments in</div>
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Western society are, without a doubt, strongly linked to what we eat.</div>
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In the last 10 years or so I've had this belief put to the test within my own framework a</div>
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While over in America the other day (that's what we islanders call the mainland)</div>
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of available curbside underneath the most magnificent trees. I was gonna</div>
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dear fluffy one was absolutely worth the trek.</div>
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As I got out of the car and looked up to actually identify the gorgeous </div>
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canopy we were parked below, I stopped dead in my tracks.</div>
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For there we were underneath two enormous black walnut trees</div>
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which happened to be dropping all their fruits over sidewalk & parkway</div>
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in great profusion.</div>
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Now the backstory to my stopping dead in my tracks is that last year</div>
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I looked high and low for one of these trees because I wanted to try my hand at</div>
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brewing some black walnut dye - deep, dark, tannin-rich goodness.</div>
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I asked around amongst all my island friends - and they of their friends - and</div>
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Nada. None to be found.</div>
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Some suggested I go to eastern Washington where they're farmed in abundance</div>
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with one lemon after another, suddenly had me grinning like an idiot on the roadside,</div>
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chuffed to no end that this part of my particularly grueling adventure had brought me to</div>
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the very trees I'd been seeking for so long.</div>
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I've been somewhat sidetracked by the inner voices so I'm more than a wee bit behind</div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Because it's summer. Because the air is heavy with heat and nostalgia.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Because this is what we have to keep remembering, the way our bodies</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the signal to jump is like thinking someone else is responsible. Because</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to tip it back.</span></i></div>
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June was my birth month and I was having very mixed feelings</div>
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about growing older, like we all do I suppose. I try not to dwell on the negatives</div>
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and instead, steer any introspection that occurs right towards that which</div>
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is beautiful and calm and filled with positivity.</div>
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And that's where doing an enterprise that we love</div>
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can save us.</div>
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Literally.</div>
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Not to put too dramatic a spin on it, but it's a challenge to not be</div>
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brought down by the goings-on in the world.</div>
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It seems so important to keep going </div>
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in the midst of all that</div>
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I didn't follow particular prompts in June, not like previous months. The natural dye pots</div>
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dye plants (instead of food) ... then, the new space needed arranging, many</div>
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each one seeming to feed off the other</div>
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There were words, some phrases, even memories that cropped up</div>
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Sweetpeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000313813136860758noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434342308817990711.post-90605208806595035532016-06-13T22:06:00.000-07:002016-06-13T22:06:36.177-07:00bead sketches : month five<div style="text-align: center;">
Bead sketching in May was like wrestling a dragon.</div>
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But then, most everything in May felt like a wrestling match.</div>
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Here, all of nature seems to "wake up" at this time of year ... spring positively <i>explodes</i> ...</div>
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and most afternoons I find myself wondering just how I'm going to fit in a nap between </div>
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all the items on my long list of tasks.</div>
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Bone weary might be an apt description.</div>
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Those are the moments when the strong commitment I made to this project</div>
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becomes its own guiding force, nudging (sometimes shoving) me to the beading table</div>
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while the other half of me feels like she should be outside accomplishing x, y, or z instead.</div>
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From assembling the base, gathering the materials, stitching layers of cloth,</div>
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solving how-to-attach-objects issues, then onto the bead embroidery itself,</div>
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each sketch requires between 6 - 8 hours to complete.</div>
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This is a relatively small amount of time in a week, all things considered.</div>
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But I've realized that if I didn't place value on the process of doing this project</div>
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So here is May. Duly wrestled.</div>
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~ Local skies were lit with <a href="http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/education/k-12/dancing-lights/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">dancing lights</span></a> early in the month so I wondered if I</div>
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could illustrate my own perception of them with some over-the-top bead stacks ~</div>
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~ Circles of friends; how imperfect they are with their loose threads .... </div>
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~ What happens to the tons of used clothing we as consumers donate or "recycle"? Much of it </div>
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makes a voyage overseas ... the somewhat disturbing <span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/12/10/247362140/the-afterlife-of-american-clothes" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">afterlife of American clothes</span></a></span> ~</div>
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~ From my collection of purposeless vintage keys (keys with unknown or missing locks),</div>
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Sweetpeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000313813136860758noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434342308817990711.post-30367772710623675492016-05-19T14:47:00.000-07:002016-05-19T14:47:38.339-07:00Sweet, sweet spring<div style="text-align: center;">
An explosion of petals everywhere I look!</div>
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March was a bit wild, not the least of which was the unrelenting rainfall</div>
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the next ... but part of the joy of this project is continuing on no matter what.</div>
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I've said it before - this adventure is so <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">freeing.</span></i></div>
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~ thinking about an homage to "broken wings" inspired by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BCyMYzYoHxN/?taken-by=christicarterphoto" target="_blank">THIS IMAGE</a> ~</div>
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Sweetpeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000313813136860758noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434342308817990711.post-29165179821228657882016-03-14T17:15:00.000-07:002016-03-14T17:24:52.312-07:00Her, with the camera<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ vintage photo, early version of stereo camera designed to take stereoscopic images ~</span></div>
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Do you remember your first?</div>
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I do. It was a box Brownie, bright pink plastic and I thought it was the cat's meow.</div>
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That probably was the start of everything.</div>
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Later, during college years, I collected a hoard of old relics, stacked them</div>
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on a bookcase in my tiny studio and if they were lucky</div>
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I even dusted now and then ... similar to this collection below</div>
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although not near as tidy.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ photo collection courtesy of <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shellytichy/6372276379/in/photostream/" target="_blank">Flickr</a> ~</span></div>
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I've simplified since then and only "collect" online images of these antiquities</div>
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- far less space involved & no cleaning required -<br />
and the subject matter is mostly women <i>using</i> cameras.<br />
Don't ask why that started cuz I just don't know.</div>
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But here's some favorites ... all females, using the *tool* of the day.</div>
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Where am I going with this? I hope it will become clear in the end.<br />
I'm thinking these pictures may be good food for thought because</div>
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these glimpses back in time could spark a few potent thoughts about <i>now.</i></div>
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In no particular order than just because I like them ...</div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ Photojournalist, <a href="http://www.britannica.com/biography/Margaret-Bourke-White" target="_blank">Margaret Bourke-White</a> with her camera during WWII assignment,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ Myrtle Lind, posed with Graflex camera, 1919, Library of Congress ~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ American, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenice_Abbott" target="_blank">Berenice Abbot</a>, portrait behind a view-camera, early 1900s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ <a href="https://theartstack.com/artist/todd-webb/georgia-o-keeffe-her-ne" target="_blank">Georgia O'Keefe with her new Leica</a>, New Mexico, by Todd Webb ~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Tarbox_Beals" target="_blank">Jessie Tarbox Beals</a>, pioneer photographer working Worlds Fair, 1904.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ <a href="http://flavorwire.com/223028/take-a-look-at-patti-smiths-first-major-photography-exhibition-camera-solo" target="_blank">Patti Smith</a>, with one of her Land Poloroids, circa 1960s ~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/blue_ruin_1/6787892608/in/photostream/" target="_blank">Maiko girls (Apprentice Geisha)</a> with camera, Japan, postcard mid 1920s ~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ Documentary photographer, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Lange" target="_blank">Dorothea Lange,</a> working on 'Dust Bowl' series, circa 1936.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ Women holding Kodak cameras, Ideal Home Exhibition, 1971, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/gallery/2012/jan/19/eastman-kodak-history-pictures" target="_blank">Eastman Kodak</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ Elizabeth Taylor with a Rolleiflex, photographer unknown ~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ vintage photograph, little girl with her camera, circa 1910, from <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/peopleofplatt/4569103582/in/set-72157623805923609/" target="_blank">Flickr</a> ~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ <a href="http://time.com/3896572/mary-ellen-mark-dies-at-75/" target="_blank">Mary Ellen Mark</a>, self portrait with Marlon Brando, 1979 (set of 'Apocalypse Now').</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ Woman holding early <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/eastman-kodak-over-the-years/2012/01/19/gIQAxiXMBQ_gallery.html" target="_blank">Kodak camera, 1895</a>. The camera was sold with</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ Diane Arbus, Central Park, 1969. Noted for photographs of marginalized people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ Climbing pioneer, environmentalist, and feminist, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_O%27Brien_Underhill" target="_blank">Miriam O'Brien Underhill</a>,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ <a href="http://origin.anothermag.com/fashion-beauty/1959/hrh-queen-elizabeth-s-leica" target="_blank">Queen Elizabeth II and her Leica M3</a>, circa 1958 ~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imogen_Cunningham" target="_blank">Imogen Cunningham</a>, circa 1970s. Prolific American photographer known for</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ College girl recording her experiences in yearbook photos, date unknown ~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ <a href="http://www.britannica.com/biography/Margaret-Bourke-White" target="_blank">Margaret Bourke-White</a>, top of the Chrysler Building, New York, NY 1935 ~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ Edwardian woman, c. 1900. Possibly the world's <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/photo-1900-might-oldest-selfie-190151229.html" target="_blank">oldest documented "selfie"</a></span></div>
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I've put up a truckload of images of women using the cameras of their day,</div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Make your art with the tool you have. Use a Polaroid or a RED camera. Use film or digital. Use Leica lenses or Lensbabies. Create abstracts and impressionistic studies of shape and colour, or stunning landscapes that are tack-sharp @ 400%, but don't kid yourself - it's not sharpness that makes it great. It never has been. Humanity doesn't need more sharpness. That is not one of the things for which we hunger. We hunger for beauty, and meaning, for stories, and for love - among other things, things that are communicated visually through light and composition - through our use of balance and tension and movement and scale and colour and a hundred other things that you can't buy in the B&H catalog, and won't be found in the manual of your new camera, no matter how much money you spend, no matter how much better your camera is than mine. We get it. Hell, every one of us has right now, at least one camera that's better than what every photographer who created a truly iconic image before the year 2000 ever had. You can make sharper, larger, cleaner images than any of them, together, ever made. And you know who cares?</span></div>
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February's collection - month two of my <a href="http://sweetpeapath.blogspot.com/2016/02/bead-sketches-month-one.html" target="_blank">'52 weeks : bead sketches' project</a> - is finished.</div>
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More playing relentlessly,</div>
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more diving deep,</div>
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more showing up faithfully.</div>
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I also did a lot of wondering about why I haven't imposed </div>
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a project like this on myself before. In truth I suppose because the time is NOW</div>
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They are written below each photograph with links.</div>
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~ bugle bead inspiration arose from <a href="http://www.livingly.com/runway/Couture+Fall+2012/Basil+Soda/Details/u3Ts1H6rUqD" target="_blank">HERE</a> ~</div>
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~ exploring some thoughts about <a href="http://www.potw.org/archive/potw260.html" target="_blank">THIS</a> ~</div>
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Sweetpeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000313813136860758noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434342308817990711.post-10097221723564943392016-02-21T12:25:00.000-08:002016-02-21T13:11:48.839-08:00The most important voice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-small;">Thought </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-small;">it might be time to embark on a yearlong adventure ... 52 weeks</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-small;">of 3-inch squares </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-small;">and the discovery of all the tiny worlds I can create</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-small;">within them. </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-small;">I have no idea where this is going,</span></i></b></div>
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I'd been away for so long that many new bead varieties had hit the markets without me</div>
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cloth I'd been amassing, explorations with paper, metals and all sorts</div>
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Be they daily poems or sketches, weekly paintings or mixed media collages, </div>
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even a gorgeous pair of knitted socks per month, folks were dedicating themselves to</div>
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Without the pressure of having to finish something each week I found</div>
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month one an extremely enjoyable enterprise. As each new week rolled around I</div>
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Little templates to explore some ideas every week.</div>
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If you are someone who's ever [or currently] embarked on a daily, weekly,</div>
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something called <i>Throwback Thursday</i></div>
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what the heck, let's see what was going on say five years ago</div>
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in my own neck of the woods.</div>
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A hop over to my photo archives from January, 2011 & it appears</div>
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not much was happening different from now ...</div>
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I was out photographing a lot of frost,</div>
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[that year we could have ice skated on our pond!]</div>
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Our dear Quinn.</div>
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Five years ago, right after Christmas, my fella and I drove to Oregon</div>
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everything & everyone, we spent that first January gently introducing her to our world</div>
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than living in a chainlink enclosure</div>
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intelligent, curious, playful, steadfastly faithful & incredibly loyal.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;"><i>Thinking only makes the heart sore.</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">when you startle awake in the dark morning</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">heart pounding breathing fast</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">sitting bolt upright staring into</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">dark whirlpool black hole</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">feeling its suction</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px;">get out of bed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">knock at the door of your nearest friend</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">ask to lie down ask to be held</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px;">listen while whispered words</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">turn the hole into deep night sky</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">stars close together</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">winter moon rising over white fields</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">nearby wren rustling dry leaves</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">distant owl echoing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">two people walking up the road laughing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px;">let your soul laugh</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">let your heart sigh out</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">that long held breath so hollow in your stomach</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">so swollen in your throat</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px;">already light is returning pairs of wings</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">lift softly off your eyelids one by one</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">each feathered edge clearer between you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">and the pearl veil of day</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px;">you have nothing to do but live </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">~ <strike>Anonymous</strike> by Jody Aliesan, from "Grief Sweat" (Broken Moon Press, 1991)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">She wondered if perhaps the "anonymous" poem above had been written by me ...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Although I'd like nothing better then to claim that gem as my own, it troubled</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">me that such fine words had no author. So I went back to Google where I'd initially</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">found it and kept searching, but this time using the first line of the poem and not</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">the key words <i>winter solstice</i> for the search terms. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">And there it was - reprinted in the book section of </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">the <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1991-08-11/books/bk-709_1_jody-aliesan" target="_blank">Los Angeles Times newspaper in the summer of 1991.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I also discovered that the first two lines of the original poem</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">had been dropped from all the copies circulating the internet;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have added them back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In addition, the original contained no capital letters in the body </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and no line spaces - I've revised those as well.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">So .... here is the poem in its original, true form.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Thank You to my friend for raising the question that sent me on</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">a quest for ownership. Ms. Aliesan deserves this credit and now I can give it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ <a href="http://digitaltmuseum.no/011061626336/gallery?query=Drakt&search_context=1&page=1&sort_by=&count=511&rows=24&pos=412&owner_filter=NMK-D" target="_blank">details on silk lace blouse</a>, made by Vernon, 1915-1917 courtesy of Digitalt Museum ~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/81599" target="_blank">dress by Mariano Fortuny</a>, ca. 1939 via The Costume Institute of the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/105059" target="_blank">silk stomacher</a> ca. 1720, The Metropolitan Museum of Art ~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ garment design by <a href="http://www.fitnyc.edu/news-archive/2009/march-1.php" target="_blank">Isabel Toledo</a>, from the exhibit/book</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ <a href="http://www.jackienickerson.com/work.php?pid=2&mode=4" target="_blank">Paul, 1999</a>, by Jackie Nickerson from the 'Farm' series ~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ <a href="http://www.photoeye.com/gallery/forms2/index.cfm?image=1&id=70321&imagePosition=1&Door=7&Portfolio=Portfolio1&Gallery=0" target="_blank">Peony Dress, Hand, San Francisco, 1997</a> by Linda Elvira Piedra</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ <a href="http://blog.metmuseum.org/alexandermcqueen/tag/voss" target="_blank">'Savage Beauty' </a>ensemble by Alexander McQueen, spring/summer collection 2001 ~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ photo by <a href="http://www.linandjirsablog.com/ohio-wedding-photography-sarahs-vineyard-julie-mike-ceremony/" target="_blank">Lin & Jirsa</a> ~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ interior seam of boro jacket, sashiko stitched, from <a href="http://threads.srithreads.com/" target="_blank">Sri Threads</a> ~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ pieced dress by <a href="http://www.gibbousfashions.com/past/gallery/" target="_blank">Gibbous Fashions</a> ~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ detail from <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/156074?rpp=30&pg=1&ft=Poiret%2c+Paul+(French%2c+1879-1944)&what=Coats&pos=13" target="_blank">silk evening coat</a> by Paul Poiret, ca 1912, The Metropolitan Museum of Art ~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">~ photo by <a href="http://www.emmanuellebrisson.com/" target="_blank">Emmanuelle Brisson</a>, from the series '<a href="http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/emmanuelle-brisson-l-air-frissonne-des-choses-qui-s-enfuient" target="_blank">L'air frissonne des choses qui</a></span></div>
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Closure</div>
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noun</div>
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1. the act or process of closing, or the state of being closed.</div>
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2. an end or conclusion</div>
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2. a sense of resolution or finality at the end of an artistic work.</div>
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